“Firms that don’t embrace this moment risk becoming observers in an era they should be leading. They won’t just lose efficiency; they will lose the talent that demands modern systems and lose the clients who demand modern results,” said Sabastian Niles, chief legal officer of Salesforce.
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The American Association of Law Libraries has named Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal the recipient of its 2026 New Product Award, the organization announced yesterday.
AALL’s New Product Award recognizes commercial information products that enhance law library services or improve access to legal information and the research process. To be eligible, products must have been introduced to the library marketplace…
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By Caroline Hill I’ve just returned from a couple of days in France at the now annual Uncorking Innovation conference, where IT directors and vendors focus as much on personal development, leadership, and time to think as […]
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Why “Bring Your AI Model” Is Becoming a Boardroom Conversation in eDiscovery
Over the past year, I’ve seen a noticeable shift in how legal leaders talk about AI in eDiscovery.
The conversation is no longer centered on whether AI should be used. In many organizations, that question has already been settled. The more important questions now are these: whose model…
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The May issue of Personal Strategy Compass newsletter is live, picking up in the silence left behind after April’s “acoustic stage” was cleared of its noise and inherited obligations.If April was about the courage to strip the stage down to its essential signal, May is about the craft required to sustain it.The image that unlocked this issue came from a…
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A federal appeals fight scheduled for Thursday put an unusual and consequential question before the D.C. Circuit: how far a president or executive branch may go in penalizing private law firms based on the clients they represent or positions they take in politically charged matters.

According to reporting on the matter, former President Donald Trump is seeking appellate relief tied…
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EvenUp, the personal injury AI company that reached a $2 billion valuation last fall, is making a significant shift in its business model – one that extends it beyond software vendor to something closer to an outsourced operations partner for PI firms.
The San Francisco-based company announced yesterday the launch of what it calls Pre-Litigation as a Service, or…
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In a May 11, 2026 filing in Michigan Western District Court, the State of Michigan submitted a brief supporting its motion to dismiss the amended complaint in case no. 1:26-cv-00246. At this stage, the State is asking the court to end some or all of the plaintiff’s claims before discovery proceeds, arguing that the amended pleading still does not…
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